Thursday Morning Commute - Bike lane meeting

Mary Cheh "directs" DDOT to educate cyclists about the dangers of streetcar tracks. And "The Committee further recommends that DDOT continue to explore ways to reduce the risks to cyclists riding along streetcar tracks and examine bicycle safety enhancements on routes parallel to streetcar corridors. The Committee directs DDOT to provide an update on this request by October 1, 2012."

Look, it's another sensational story about the CaBi bike helmet study. "...most riders are risking their lives by not wearing a helmet." The story also miscites the efficacy stat on helmets (it's from a 1989 study, not the IIHS) which is somewhat dubious as is the stat that 91% of cycling fatalities don't wear helmets. On the other hand, there is this. On the upside, they included the percentage of non-CaBi riders wearing helmets which is 51.4%.

Beginning on Saturday PBS will run a series called Pedal America, about biking in the USA. I had a friend who worked at Discover Channel and I kept trying to pitch a bike travel show to her in which I would travel around the world with a super model and we would ride bikes and then drink beer and they would pay me a lot of money to do that. Unfortunately, she was an accountant so it didn't go anywhere.

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Montgomery County, College Park and Baltimore City won state grants to implement bikesharing. Those projects can go forward after July 1st. Greenbelt, Prince George's, Howard County and the City of Frederick won grants for feasibility studies for bikesharing.

Looks like CaBi is on its way to Bethesda, Medical Center, Friendship Heights, Silver Spring, Takoma Park and College Park soon. The Montgomery Co. proposal has a timeline of fall/winter 2012. All of the stations should be in place by summer 2013.

"I kept trying to pitch a bike travel show to her in which I would travel around the world with a super model and we would ride bikes and then drink beer and they would pay me a lot of money to do that."

Someone close to me just got in an accident on these H street streetcar tracks. This is a huge problem that I believe the city needs to be liable for. My friend now is up to his neck in medical bills - over $5000. Any recommendations on what to do?